James L. Buckley was born in New York City in 1923 and grew up in rural Connecticut. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale. Following service as a naval officer in World War II, he returned to New Haven to secure his law degree. After 20 years in private life, he was elected to the United States Senate (in 1970) as the candidate of New York's Conservative Party. He failed of reelection; but has since served as an undersecretary of state in the Reagan administration and, most recently, as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He retired in 2000, and he and his wife now live in Sharon, Connecticut.
"You have never read a book like this. A first-class litigator and brillinat interviewer, Wendy White, probes and keeps probing one of the quietest of the most interesting people of our time, Jim Buckley, Senator, President of Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe during a key period in the liberation of Europe from Soviet Communism, Federal Judge, and all-around good man. Judge Buckley adds informative and entertaining notes throughout, explaining parts of the hidden background that readers might want to know. A warm, often wryly funny, wonderfully illuminating tale about one of the most remarkable families of the last century." - Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute
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